What better place to start a boat trip than in the aptly named Waterstraat (‘water street’)? Here, on Thursday 15 March, a meeting was held in Kasteelhoeve De Grote Hegge in Thorn, bringing together some thirty MyDrives consultants from all over the world.

The ‘cobra effect’ is when a solution exacerbates the original problem. The name owes itself to the colonial British government in India who became alarmed at the number of venomous cobras in the city of Delhi.

Imagine you're an HR manager or a department manager. Your supervisor asks you to organize a team meeting, so that everyone can get more insight into each other's personality, strengths, and weaknesses.

Date: Thursday 16 March 2017 Location: The Hotel Management School in Maastricht This leafy, relaxed location was the venue for a MyDrives meeting with about thirty MyDrives consultants from all over the world. The meeting focused on the phenomenon of stress.

Everyone experiences stress at times, and it's not something that has to be negative. A bit of healthy stress can even be good for you, as you need some of that pressure to get you going. This may explain why many students put off revising until the last minute.

(But first, read this article about ownership and drives). A year ago, I sent off the final version of my first management book De aard van jouw beestje (What is your nature?) to be printed. A few weeks later, I received a pile of copies.

On the last day of August 2016, the MyDrives team was in Tilburg to put on an interactive MyDrives workshop for the Destil Trappers, an ice hockey club based in the city. However, given that the ice hockey team plays on the international stage – too good for the Dutch league – they're not that well known at home...

How can someone be a natural at their job and still be unhappy? Why is a degree from a prestigious university not necessarily a guarantor of success? How can someone with less experience perform better than someone with years of experience?

‘Culture’ is a term I hear often when giving workshops about individual drives and behaviour. A culture will naturally develop in a workplace. We usually adapt to each other unconsciously and so create a fixed, recognizable pattern.